Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...

A gene-editing tool that can turn genes on and off like a light switch has been developed. Turning a gene on means activating ...

Study of Asgard archaea reveals insights into the evolution of cellular complexity through analysis of cytoskeletal proteins.

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research ...

Chitons are marine mollusks that can scrape off and feed on algae from rocky surfaces using their ultrahard magnetic teeth.

The Trump administration is considering changing the U.S. patent maintenance fee structure from the existing three fixed flat fees to an ...

All these are different cells present in the immune system which are involved in fighting foreign bodies (such as microbes) or clearing dead cells. When the body is breached by infectious agents, such ...

A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

Scientists at Feinberg are reshaping scientific understanding of the cell's tiniest components—structures once thought to be ...

Our bodies are made up of countless cells, and each one is enclosed by a thin layer called the cell membrane. This membrane ...

In the lab, it's easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units—nephrons—that make up a human kidney. But new ...